Better to run around Huhhot to unite with 40 or so louwai to banish your thoughts of homesickness.
Or were they all herded together by the FAO there for one reason or another? Maybe to teach the aforementioned Chinese administrators the basic English they need to do their jobs properly.Crikey,they do need it!
HERDs?Mongolian ponies springs to mind,they must be used to being herded,and they're louwai too!